Founder and CEO, Facebook
Age: 27
Industry: Technology
This may have been the year your grandmother joined Facebook. The Harvard dropout and tech wizard is a household name, thanks in part to
The Social Network, but the real-life script is still being written. In 2011 his baby hit 800 million users and was valued at $50 billion, setting the stage for a monster IPO to come. The company also partnered with Skype and redesigned key parts of its service, leading to the usual temporary backlash.
On the hunt: Zuck made headlines earlier this year when he told Fortune his goal for 2011 was to eat only animals he had personally killed.
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